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How to be South Asian in America

Jain, Anupama, 1972-

How to be South Asian in America narratives of ambivalence and belonging / [electronic resource] : Anupama Jain. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 279 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading assimilation and the American dream as transnational narratives -- They came on buses: "Guyanese Opportunities" as a contemporary Americanization program -- "Stretched over dark femaleness": three South Asian novels of Americanization -- "How to be Indian": independent films about second-generation South Asian Americans -- Ambivalent Americanization and South Asian narratives of belonging in diaspora.

9781439903049 1439903042




Americanization.
South Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
South Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.


Electronic books.

E184.S69 / J35 2011

973/.04914